Pop Rock 2025 promises to beryllium an bonzer showdown amongst artists of each ages and places | Credit: Palma Town Hall
According to nan First Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Culture astatine Palma City Council, Javier Bonet, nan Pop Rock 2025 arena has already received 94 proposals from bands and artists this year.
From those introduction submissions, Bonet said 16 were selected to proceed competing toward nan finals connected September 27. The sixteen finalists are: Jenny Drama Queen, Born, El Cairo, Licata, Nuria Foreman, The Ripples, Soy David Goodman, The Vil Veins, Manena, Jon Sickers, Merak, Rick Sena, Tebals, Mon Joan Tiquat, naXisca and UR Bad.
Pop Rock, “a well-established arena successful nan city’s taste calendar,” will beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected IB3. It will besides grant rate prizes and let nan finalist groups to execute astatine awesome euphony festivals and events. They will besides beryllium portion of nan municipal taste programme for 2026. Bonet highlighted that this year’s arena featured “bands pinch established careers, but besides very young groups that, successful immoderate cases, are led by teenagers arsenic young arsenic 13, aliases moreover by children arsenic young arsenic 10.” The politician emphasised that “music is simply a cosmopolitan connection that knows nary property aliases boundaries. Talent is calved each day, particularly among nan caller generations of these islands.”
Celebrating diverseness and quality
The caput of nan municipality praised nan diverseness and value of nan proposals received. “We’re very impressed by nan ambition pinch which each these bands participated and nan deficiency of prejudice successful mixing genres, thing that didn’t hap 40 years ago.”
She besides highlighted nan accent connected “the number of women who person signed up, which makes it much inclusive .” “It’s bully news for much and much girls to prime up their guitars and travel play,” she added. The competition, “a well-established arena successful nan city’s taste calendar”, will beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected IB3 and will characteristic a assemblage made up of euphony professionals specified arsenic singer-songwriter Maika Makovski, musician Miguel Gibert, journalist Anna de la Salud, composer Julio Molina and performer Arantxa Andreu. The method committee will measure nan performances and prime nan 5 finalists who will compete successful nan gala connected September 27, which will besides characteristic a capacity by La Granja arsenic a impermanent group and Lyra’s Hëll, winners of nan past edition.
Prizes and opportunities
The apical 3 finishers will person contracts weighted astatine €3,000, €2,000, and €1,000 to beryllium portion of nan 2026 municipal program. Additionally, nan apical 7 winners will person nan opportunity to execute astatine festivals and euphony events specified arsenic nan Mallorca Live Festival, Mobofest, and SonsDeNit, among others.
The councillor emphasised that Pop Rock is “a launching pad for section talent that, pinch much than 40 years of history, has witnessed and participated successful nan maturation of nan Islands’ euphony scene.” He besides expressed his gratitude to nan sponsors, nan performance venues, and nan City Council’s Culture team, and sent a connection of support to nan groups that were not selected. “Let them retrieve what a grounds explanation executive told The Beatles: that they weren’t going to get anywhere,” he emphasised.
This year’s version besides comes astatine a clip that Bonet described arsenic ” decisive ” for Palma, wrong nan model of nan city’s bid to beryllium nan European Capital of Culture successful 2031, wherever “music will beryllium 1 of nan basal pillars and section musicians will beryllium nan champion missive of introduction.”